1Q2005

There was no mention of financier Carl Icahn’s recent demands on Kerr-McGee Corp. during the company’s 1Q2005 conference call with analysts last week, but his group’s calls to shake things up to increase shareholder value was evident.

There was no mention of financier Carl Icahn’s recent demands on Kerr-McGee Corp. during the company’s 1Q2005 conference call with analysts on Wednesday, but his group’s calls to shake things up to increase shareholder value was evident.

In a 1Q2005 interim update issued Wednesday, ChevronTexaco Corp. said its U.S. liquids and natural gas production fell 1.5% from fourth quarter 2004 levels on normal field declines, operational factors and asset sales, which offset gradual restoration of volumes that were shut in last September during Hurricane Ivan. It’s total domestic production was down 19% compared to the first quarter of 2004.

The platform and pipeline damage from Hurricane Ivan is proving more difficult to repair than some producers thought as recently as last week. The Minerals Management Service (MMS) said on Friday that although about 1 Bcf/d of the 1.8 Bcf/d of gas production currently shut in could return to service by the end of October, it may take much longer to restore the remaining 800 MMcf/d portion.

The platform and pipeline damage from Hurricane Ivan is proving more difficult to repair than some producers thought as recently as last week. The Minerals Management Service (MMS) said on Friday that although about 1 Bcf/d of the 1.8 Bcf/d of gas production currently shut in could return to service by the end of October, it may take much longer to restore the remaining 800 MMcf/d portion.